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The @AuthorsCC book cricket tournament kicks off at 15.00 this afternoon, with a match so full of star power that it would not have disgraced the final: my Anglo-Saxon XI take on @benfalkwriter& #39;s 1990s Hollywood XI.
My team:
1. Offa
2. St Cuthbert
3. Beowulf
4. Alfred the Great
5. St Hilda of Whitby
6. Athelstan
7. The Venerable Bede (wkt)
8. Holland, T (c)
9. Æthelflæd
10. Hengist
11. Horsa
1. Offa
2. St Cuthbert
3. Beowulf
4. Alfred the Great
5. St Hilda of Whitby
6. Athelstan
7. The Venerable Bede (wkt)
8. Holland, T (c)
9. Æthelflæd
10. Hengist
11. Horsa
My team offers strength in depth both in the batting (with me batting as low as eight, there& #39;ll be no lack of sixes), and in the bowling (Æthelflæd is not known as the Leggie of the Mercians for nothing, & Athelstan is a formidable all-rounder in the mould of Ben Stokes)
A typically negative take on our batting order from notorious curmudgeon @jonawils https://twitter.com/jonawils/status/1247148238081228803?s=20">https://twitter.com/jonawils/...
In the big #ASvBratPack match, the Brat Pack XI are reeling at 43-3. Hengist, with a fiery opening spell has all 3 wickets. Keanu clean bowled, Winona caught in the deep by Alfred the Great.
Hengist bags the first Michelle of the tournament. I get my first wicket, trapping John Candy lbw. Kevin Costner launching a counterattack. Brat Pack XI 123-6. #ASvBratPack
Brat Pack make 209-9 off their allotted overs. Costner top scorer with 44. 5 wickets for Hengist, 2 for me. Æthelflæd disappointing.
We let it slip with that last wicket partnership. Still, all to play for. Offa & St Cuthbert come out to open our innings. https://twitter.com/jonawils/status/1247169154395729920?s=21">https://twitter.com/jonawils/... https://twitter.com/jonawils/status/1247169154395729920">https://twitter.com/jonawils/...
Offa out for a single. The dyke is breached. DAMN. 5-1. #ASvBratPack
St Cuthbert loses his off-stump. Anglo-Saxons 33-2.
SO. TENSE. #ASvBratPack
Beowulf out LBW to Ally Sheedy. (Not a sentence that has ever been typed before, I suspect.) Alfred the Great & St Hilda of Whitby rebuilding the innings. Anglo-Saxons 100-3. #ASvBratPack
Sheedy strikes again! St Hilda of Whiby out lbw! Anglo-Saxons 147-4 #ASvBratPack
Unbelievable tension. This is what high-octane, top flight sport is all about. #ASvBratPack
Athelstan out cheaply, Alfred out for a brilliant 83, caught in the deep by Andrew McCarthy. Anglo-Saxons 194-6. 16 needed. I. AM. AT. THE. CREASE!!!! #ASvBratPack
John Candy gets me lbw.
Thank God. The Venerable Bede eases us to a 6 wicket victory. Alfred the Great coming to the rescue yet again.
Feld dænnede
secgas hwate, siðþan sunne up
on morgentid; mære tungol
glad ofer grundas, Godes condel beorht,
eces Drihtnes, oð sio æþele gesceaft
sah to setle.
#ASvBratPack
secgas hwate, siðþan sunne up
on morgentid; mære tungol
glad ofer grundas, Godes condel beorht,
eces Drihtnes, oð sio æþele gesceaft
sah to setle.
#ASvBratPack
